The Covid-19 pandemic caused the California State University system to shift completely to online learning in March 2020. Before the end of the spring 2020 semester the CSU system announced that Fall 2020, and then Spring 2021 courses would be delivered online. During the summer of 2020 online training courses are available to all Faculty and instructors to prepare for online delivery. The courses were developed by curriculum designers and delivered by volunteer faculty with both expertise and comfort in online instruction. At one of the schools in the CSU system 800 instructors signed up to take the course. The purpose of this paper is to understand how faculty implemented teaching practices online after participating in the training provided by the participant university in the summer of 2020. Using the Universal Design for Learning framework for analysis; survey results, teaching strategies, and recommendations are included.
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